Cartography

Online Cartography Lessons

How do map projections distort Earth's surface?

How are landforms represented on Flat Maps?

How do latitude and longitude coordinates help us see patterns on Earth?

How can getting farther away from Earth help us see it more clearly?

Napolean's March to Moscow

Minard's map of Napolean's Russian Campaign of 1812

Chaikovsky's 1812 Overture

UC Davis W.M. Keck Center for Active Visualization in the Earth Sciences

Video of a sandbox equipped with a Kinect 3D camera and a projector

to project a real-time colored topographic map with contour lines onto the sand surface.

Mt Everest

Washburn's map

Topographical map of Mt Everest

South Route up Mt Everest

Pictures of south route

Mt Everest News

International Mountain Guides

Imax Everest site

Nova - Everest the Death Zone

National Geographic's film about George Mallory The Wildest Dream

Interview with the climber who found Mallory

National Geographic's photos of climbing Mt Everest

Read an interview with the first blind man to summit Mt Everest

A climber's journal - read the journal of Steven Keck as he tried to summit Everest from the north, the Chinese side